Quantification of t(14;18) in the lymphocytes of healthy adult humans as a possible biomarker for environmental exposures to carcinogens

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1013-1020

  Fuscoe, James C ^a   Setzer, R Woodrow ^b   Collard, Deborah D ^a   Moore, Martha M ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARCINOGEN; DNA; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATION RATE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029893296     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.5.1013     Document Type: Article

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